Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent 87 minutes talking with China's Premier Dr. T. V. Soong. And then Jack Benny came in and cracked that if he had not known the President was so busy he would have brought his violin and played a tune. Reported pleased Comedian Benny: the President laughed -"he's a swell...
...almost an hour President Truman listened hard to the arguments for extension of Lend-Lease. There were reasons for an immediate decision: 1) China had made a formal request for extension, and its Premier Dr. T. V. Soong was waiting on the doorstep (see FOREIGN NEWS); 2) Charles de Gaulle, reaching the door step this week, would doubtless bring up the question; 3) Britain, normally the best U.S. customer, could not buy heavily in the U.S. market without help in putting its own economy in order; 4) Russia, potentially a good customer, had already asked for $6 billion of postwar...
...Russians have always known that Churchill feared and opposed the growth of Soviet power in eastern and central Europe. Nevertheless, it was clear at Potsdam that the Russians had more respect for Tory Churchill than for Socialist Premier Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian Communists have been in power long enough to recognize the authoritative accents of a ruling class when they hear them; besides, there is the old Communist contempt for the "soft" socialist mentality...
...fusion with the Communist Party was Italy's No. 1 Socialist, Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, elegant in dapper grey trousers and an ivory-toned monogrammed shirt. Cried he: "Any policy not based on unity of the working classes will gradually lead our country and our party to slip from a revolutionary position to that of mere reform. . . . We are today 700,000 Socialists. When we shall have united with the Communists and formed a new unified party, we must not, however, renounce our Socialism. . . . Perhaps two generations from now differences between Socialists and Communists will have disappeared...
This week, it was expected that a special Cortes session would confirm Martinez Barrio. Then Dr. Negrin would resign his somewhat abstract office, and Barrio would ask a new premier to form a Cabinet...